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Lead Software Engineer
Location
London
Duration
Until 31/05/2027
Days on site
2-3 days onsite/week
Pay Rate
£402 per day all inc. (PAYE through Umbrella)
Sector
Banking
Role Description
To lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
Accountabilities
- Lead engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organizational objectives.
- Oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritization to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
- Mentor and support team members' professional growth, conduct performance reviews, provide actionable feedback, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluation and enhancement of engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimize team productivity.
- Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
- Enforcement of technology standards, facilitate peer reviews, and implement robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
Expectations
To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
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The four LEAD behaviors are:
- L – Listen and be authentic
- E – Energise and inspire
- A – Align across the enterprise
- D – Develop others
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For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their own discipline and will guide technical direction.
- They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments.
- They will train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work their team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization's functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
- Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
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Critical Skills
- Hands-on Coding experience in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Framework, Java 21+
- Good knowledge of RDBMS and any No-SQL DB (Mongo, Cassandra, etc)
- Good understanding of Design patterns (SOLID) and clean code.
- Experience in building large-scale distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, Containerized deployments.
- AI-driven SDLC creation and management.
Desirable skills
- Payments Knowledge
- Understanding of SDLC, Gitflow - Branching and Merging Strategy
- Project and Visibility Management with Jira and Agile.
- Prompt Engineering
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV, and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often shortlisted within 48 hours.
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